Plato Quotes

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

It is by doing good that we become good.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.